Psalm 79:10
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.

Young's Literal Translation
Why do the nations say, ‘Where [is] their God?’ Let be known among the nations before our eyes, The vengeance of the blood of Thy servants that is shed.

King James Bible
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where [is] their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight [by] the revenging of the blood of thy servants [which is] shed.

Hebrew
Why
לָ֤מָּה ׀ (lām·māh)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

should the nations
הַגּוֹיִם֮ (hag·gō·w·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts

ask,
יֹאמְר֣וּ (yō·mə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“Where
אַיֵּ֪ה (’ay·yêh)
Interrogative
Strong's 346: Where?

is their God?”
אֱ‍ֽלֹהֵ֫יהֶ֥ם (’ĕlō·hê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

Before our eyes,
לְעֵינֵ֑ינוּ (lə·‘ê·nê·nū)
Preposition-l | Noun - cdc | first person common plural
Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain

make known
יִוָּדַ֣ע (yiw·wā·ḏa‘)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3045: To know

among the nations
בַּגּוֹיִ֣ם (bag·gō·w·yim)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts

Your vengeance
נִ֝קְמַ֗ת (niq·maṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 5360: Avengement

for the bloodshed
דַּֽם־ (dam-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed

of Your servants.
עֲבָדֶ֥יךָ (‘ă·ḇā·ḏe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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